Black ice!
Numerous accidents occurred on Wednesday night.
Motorways were temporarily closed for hours.
Even the winter service was affected.
An 18-year-old was killed in a serious accident.
Berlin -
traffic chaos in Germany:
In the north of Lower Saxony, a section of the motorway was closed due to several black ice accidents.
In the south and west, trucks broke down and brought traffic to a standstill.
At least one person was killed in accidents by early Wednesday morning and several were seriously injured.
In most cases, however, it remained with sheet metal damage and slightly injured, as the police station announced.
The weather should remain wintry on Wednesday even during the day.
Fatal black ice accident: 18-year-old crashes his car into a tree
In
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
, an 18-year-old drove his car into a tree.
According to the police, the young man had probably driven too fast, strayed off the slippery road with his vehicle and crashed into several crash barriers and then into the tree.
He died at the scene of the accident, his passenger was seriously injured.
Black ice - motorway completely closed for three hours
In
Lower Saxony
, Autobahn 27 near Bremen had to be closed for three hours.
There were accidents with cars, vans and trucks in the evening with hailstorms and black ice.
Nobody was injured in the accidents.
A
winter service vehicle came off the lane
on a street in northern Saxony
.
The car came to rest on the roof.
The 65-year-old driver was taken to hospital seriously injured.
A
gritter
slipped off
the road near
Böblingen in Baden-Württemberg
.
Due to the force of the accident, the large front snow shovel and the linkage tore off the vehicle.
The driver was unharmed.
A car rolled over near newcomers.
The driver was taken to hospital with serious injuries.
The Bavarian police also registered a significantly increased number of accidents due to the winter conditions.
A police officer slammed his car into a guardrail because of the slippery road surface.
His car was then hit by another vehicle.
The officer was seriously injured.
In Lower Bavaria alone, the police had to move out more than 100 times by late Tuesday evening - mostly due to sheet metal damage to vehicles "that have come off the road or have not made it up the mountain," it said.
Slippery roads also caused
numerous accidents
in
Schleswig-Holstein
.
In total, it crashed around 50 times between Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning, the police said.
The south of the country was particularly hard hit.
Here the emergency services counted 20 accidents with a total of two seriously injured.
Slippery roads: the spreader tips over
In the Warendorf district in
North Rhine-Westphalia
, five people were injured in several ice accidents.
As a rule, the drivers came off the road and injured themselves slightly, the police said on Wednesday morning.
A 57-year-old woman rolled over her vehicle in Beckum and was taken to a hospital with an ambulance, slightly injured.
In Bielefeld, a
gritter
tipped over on a
slippery road
on Wednesday morning
.
The 22-year-old driver was slightly injured.
Broken down vehicles also led to traffic jams and road closures in other parts of Germany.
For example, a truck driver drove too quickly into a curve on a slippery road near Speyer in Rhineland-Palatinate - the vehicle turned sideways and the trailer tipped over.
The road was closed for several hours.
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Black ice accident: 18-year-old loses control of his Mercedes, collides with a street lamp.
© Police
According to the police, the number of injuries is likely to increase significantly during the day once all accidents from the night have been recorded.
Even during the day, snow and slippery snow were forecast again for Wednesday in many parts of Germany.
(dpa) * Merkur.de is part of the Ippen digital network
